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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Amiri Baraka

1962

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Nature of freedom Freedom Black freedom struggle

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Jones, LeRoi (aka Imamu Amiri Baraka). "Tokenism: 300 Years for 5 Cents." Kulchur, Spring 1962, no. 5.

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